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1930: Salter’s Creek, former trading post, an isolated settlement in NW Canada, long-fallen into decline after rumours of a gold strike turned out to be false, serves scattered outlying homesteads hacked out of the surrounding forest by immigrant Scottish families dispossessed of their Highland birth-right by the Clearances.
It is necessary to decide who should be responsible for the welfare of Kip Harrison, orphaned aged eight by a car accident and adopted by his elderly great aunt who dies shortly before his eleventh birthday. Should his guardian be the austere Minister and his wife, or the amiable schoolmaster whom Kip himself prefers?
Nobody except the reader is aware of the boy’s accidental encounter with the fanatical old itinerant preacher ‘Pope’ Potter with which the story opens and which is to have such far-reaching consequences.
In an exceptionally dry summer, the threat of forest fires in everyone’s mind, a worrying pattern of small conflagrations and the bizarre desecration of the church increases tension as The Great Blaze eats its way towards Salter’s Creek.
Iain Mackenzie-Blair
Iain Mackenzie-Blair lives beside the Minch in Wester Ross, looking across to the Outer Isles. Past winner of the Petra Kenney and Neill Gunn prizes; collections Aultgrishan, Waiting for Ginger Rogers at Loch Oich, Remembering Falstaff and Others from diehard; Disciplines of War (New and Selected Poems) BBC Radio 4 Poetry Please: 2017 Biblioţicii Naţionale României & Edinburgh; ANTOLOGIA POETILOR SCOTIENTI Anthology of 16 Scottish Poets Prose. The Climber’s Tale won the 2014 Mountaineering .Council of Scotland Fiction Prize). School Story 2005 is now the trilogy I Drift; II Blood; III Fall on Amazon as a Kindle e-book, as is his most recent novel Guardians 2019.
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